In 1845 Dr. Bacon was joint compiler with Dr. E. T. Fitch, and several others, of Psalms & Hymns for Christian Use and Worship, published "by the General Association of Connecticut."
To this collection he contributed the following:-
How sweet, thro' long remembered years. Evening. In the Church Praise Book., N.Y., 1882, No. 15, is composed of stanzas iii.-v. of No. 10.
-- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)